Windscreen Head-Up Display for Social Networking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current social networking systems in vehicles lack the ability to identify and display social networking subscribers with common socialization attributes on the driving scene without requiring the driver to take their eyes off the road, as there is no effective method to visually distinguish these individuals or vehicles while maintaining focus on driving.

Innovation Solution

A method utilizing a substantially transparent windscreen head-up display to dynamically register graphical images of social networking subscribers with common socialization attributes, monitored through vehicle sensors and data inputs, allowing for their identification and display on the windscreen while maintaining transparency and visibility of the driving scene.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a traditional display screen is used to show social networking information, then information visibility is improved, but driver attention is diverted from the road

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesocial networking information visibilityVSAvoiddriver distraction

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses a head-up display (HUD) system as an intermediary device that projects social networking information onto the windshield, allowing drivers to view information without looking at traditional screens. The HUD acts as a mediator between the driver and information, maintaining driver focus on the road while delivering social networking content through optical projection onto the transparent windshield surface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes the windshield itself as a flexible transparent medium to display information. By projecting graphics onto the thin film of the windshield glass, the system leverages the existing transparent barrier between driver and environment, converting it into an information display surface without adding bulky screens or obstructing the driver's view.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

2Illumination intensity

If the windscreen is made transparent to maintain visibility of the driving scene, then visibility is improved, but the ability to display graphical information is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedriving scene visibilityVSAvoidgraphical information display capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent adds a dimensional layer to the transparent windshield by projecting graphical information onto its surface. Instead of trying to make the windshield opaque for display purposes, the system uses optical projection to add a visual layer on top of the transparent surface, allowing both transparency for driving visibility and information display capability to coexist in different dimensional planes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The projection system serves as an intermediary that bridges the gap between transparency and information display. By using optical projection technology, the system can superimpose graphical information onto the transparent windshield without blocking the underlying driving scene, effectively mediating between the conflicting requirements of transparency and display capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables the driver to visually identify and locate social networking subscribers with common attributes without diverting attention from the road, enhancing social connectivity while ensuring safe driving by projecting relevant information onto the windscreen using light emitting particles or microstructures.

Implementation Method 1

utilizing a substantially transparent windscreen head-up display including one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the windscreen permitting luminescent display while permitting transmission therethrough

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectLuminescence: Luminescence

Data Source

PatentUS8098170B1Full-windshield head-up display interface for social networking

Publication Date: 2012.01.17 GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC

AI summary

A method to dynamically register a graphic identifying social networking subscribers of a social networking service having socialization attributes common to the vehicle onto a driving scene of a vehicle utilizing a substantially transparent windscreen head-up display includes monitoring the social networking service, including: monitoring informational inputs of the vehicle; monitoring broadcasted socialization attributes of the social networking subscribers; and identifying the social networking subscribers having the socialization attributes common to the vehicle based on the monitored informational inputs of the vehicle and the monitored broadcasted socialization attributes of the social networking subscribers. The graphic identifying the social networking subscribers having the socialization attributes common to the vehicle is determined, and a location of the graphic is dynamically registered upon the substantially transparent windscreen head-up display corresponding to the driving scene of the vehicle. The graphic is displayed onto the driving scene of the vehicle utilizing a substantially transparent windscreen head-up display including one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the windscreen permitting luminescent display while permitting transmission therethrough.